Technology
A Spanish-speaking and a French-speaking Caribbean island has been devastated by a hurricane. It is your job to rebuild the island’s resources. This will be successfully accomplished by completing a variety of different challenges. Each challenge will concentrate on a particular resource that needs to be re-established on the island.
Sustainability is the key to the future success of this island. Old technologies which were previously relied upon have a high carbon footprint and in turn contribute to natural disasters due to Global warming. The island has no fuel resources, very little shelter and many farms have been destroyed.
How are you going to solve the immediate problems faced by the islanders and prevent similar disaster occurring again in the future?
These are the five challenges that you will need to complete via a passport in order to protect the future of the island. Whilst completing these challenges you will be required to apply all the skills you have picked up from Learn to Learn lessons, always remembering to apply the 5 ‘R’s’ –Responsibility, Resourcefulness, Resilience, Using Reasoning Skills and Reflection.
Special tasks may be part of your challenge, helping you understand more about the people’s lives on the island.
Willow Workshop – this will solve the immediate problem of shelter and help create a plan for the town of the future. You will be required to use all of your Art and Design skills to complete this task, as well as key words learnt through your Modern Foreign Languages lessons.
Fuel cells – these will provide energy for homes and provide power for transport links with no carbon footprint.
Knowledge of Science is paramount in creating a fuel cell. Communication and advertising skills learnt in English will help you show the islanders your new sustainable fuel source. Remember to use the key words learnt in Modern Foreign Languages to help the islanders understand how to make the fuel cells.
Solar powered cars – these vehicles will transport emergency supplies around the island and provide a sustainable and alternative fuel source for transport links. Knowledge from Science lessons are applied to create and design these cars, with instructions from Modern Foreign Languages being crucial in being able to construct them due to parts and instructions being in the island’s main language.
Traditional Farming – farming sometimes needs to go back to basics, as seen in the organic revolution, providing both immediate resources and sustainable future solutions. In this challenge you will need knowledge from Science, as well as the need for Art and Design techniques.
House of the future – all your learning will culminate in the design of the ideal sustainable house of the future to be used on the island. A wide range of skills will be required, from communication in English to sustainable knowledge in Science, creative skills in Art and design to descriptive and communication skills in Modern Foreign Languages
Can you take on the challenge?